Murray Rothbard Confronts Adam Smith
A noteworthy feature of Murray Rothbard's monumental history of economic thought is his vigorous denunciation of Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations.
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Samuelson’s Economics: The Continuing Legacy
Paul A. Samuelson's legendary textbook, straightforwardly titled Economics, most famously exemplifies Samuelson the writer.
Harold J. Laski: The Liberal Manque or Lost Libertarian?
A generation after his death in 1950, Harold Laski, the eminent political scientist, socialist, and British Labour Party leader, is almost forgotte
The Dynamics and Dialectics of Capitalism
Free societies (whatever the fine points in defining “free”) are not necessarily self-perpetuating.
Was Richard Cantillon an Austrian Economist?
Can anyone take seriously the question posed by the title of this paper? History clearly reveals the following facts.
Enforcement of Private Property Rights in Primitive Societies: Law without Government
If law exists only where there are state-backed courts and codes, then every primitive society was lawless.
Classical Liberal Exploitation Theory: A Comment on Professor Liggio’s Paper
In the popular academic mind, the doctrine of class-conflict seems to be inextricably linked to the particular Marxist version of the idea.
The Reform Mentality, War, Peace, and the National State: From the progressives to Vietnam
That the modern reform mentality has been imbued with a statist philosophy leading to imperialism and war is perhaps no surprise to libertarians.
Introduction: An Economic Critique of Socialism
Collected together in this special issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is an apparently quite disparate group of articles on centr
